Measures of Poverty That Fail to Account for the Value

question 79

Multiple Choice

Measures of poverty that fail to account for the value of in-kind transfers:

• A)understate the actual poverty rate
• B)have little effect on the validity of reported poverty rates
• C)are generally more reliable in accounting for annual variation in actual poverty rates
• D)overstate the actual poverty rate

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